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Collision captured on Dashcam. Radar footage here . See “Raw Alert” below. What was known and reported between 11pm and midnight of the DC crash and recovery effort… —A press conference conducted by the DC mayor and key officials @ ~12:00 am: —Updated Report on Crash @ ~1 am: —NTSB Commentary by Greg Feith @ ~ 12: am: Search and Recovery Efforts Underway: Background information from Just-the-News : FTA: <<Midair collision over nation’s capital preceded by months of near misses, safety warnings Report warned FAA America’s air traffic control system is suffering from quality control issues and staffing shortages that put safety at risk. The midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over the nation’s capital was preceded by months of harrowing near misses at airports across America, as well as increasingly shrill warnings that the nation’s air traffic control and safety system is stretched to the limit. Just 14 months before Wednesd...

  Prestigious 21st Century Sport Every Newgen seems to have one. Racketball was easy Squash,  Pickleball is easy  Tennis  or  a jumped up version of Ping Pong,  and Elite Mag-Skitching is easy Highbrow Politicating. I promise I’ll explain the relevance of the new sport I’ve referenced above, but I have learned through many many years of following matters highbrow that the best guide to writing about it appropriately is the original New Yorker magazine. You don’t give away your conclusion or even your intended purpose in writing any article without a slightly off-tangent opening. Which I will give you now. People are suddenly very concerned about old age. When it comes to people, one can almost understand. 80 seems very old in a man, given how dumb they all are to start with (Kidding. Woke joke for the young’uns.) This kind of suspicion spreads rapidly to institutions. Bad enough that the ancient Ivy League has entered a PR downturn of sorts; how much worse...

  Something to file away for a day when you’re tired of the morning’s headlines and need a chuckle or a head-scratcher to stay awake. These are all one-word searches (hyphens don’t count) to look at with the site’s Keyword Search function. Adding words may seem to be advantageous but it almost never is. Each word on the following list will show you multiple choices to pick from. quick hitters, longer pieces, funny stuff, thoughtful stuff. Covers a lot of territory over four years and sometimes much more than that, depending on the internal links. It won’t always be obvious why a post contains the search term, but there’s always a reason. The posts,listed can continue past the screen that’s showing; when you’re prompted with a linkmto More Posts, take it. Be arbitrary. Have fun. There’s no correct order in this list, and no correct order in what any search generates. Like a seaside amusement park. Ride the rides that look like a good or slightly scary entertainment… 1. Occlusio-Cort...

  It’s kind of a big deal when the NYT slips a story through the paywall. Why this one? I was going to leave this story alone or tag it with a quip at Facebook when I first read about it at Gateway Pundit. They’ve already dumped it from their morgue of recent posts, but there were two more stories this morning that changed my mind. One at Breitbart about an on-air TDS one-liner at Fox Sports and another about the hairdresser’s lawsuit in the sports newsletter leaked through the paywall of the New York Times. The Times piece is excerpted above. The Breitbart post is a mere throwaway item, located far down the Main Page of the website with no names mentioned.  Here’s a quick clip of the show Breitbart was referencing: I think both publications sense that something significant is going on here, but they just don’t quite know what it is. That’s when the title of this post occurred to me. “Tempest in a Foxhole.” Mixed metaphor obviously. Tempest in a teapot is a standard dismissal....